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Quake III Arena
Installation (Retail)
Data Files
mkdir /<path to install>/quake3 mount /cdrom cp -r /cdrom/Quake3/baseq3 /<path to install>/quake3 umount /cdrom
Binaries
cd /<path to install>/quake3 wget ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/linux/linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run chmod +x linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run ./linuxq3apoint-1.32b-3.x86.run (Use "/<path to install>/quake3" when asked)
Security Fix
wget ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/quake3/quake3-1.32c.zip unzip quake3-1.32c.zip cp Quake\ III\ Arena\ 1.32c/linux/* . rm -rf Quake\ III\ Arena\ 1.32c/
Troubleshooting
Sound
If you have no sound with the following error message in console
/dev/dsp: Input/output error Could not mmap /dev/dsp
you can try the following fix
sudo nano /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh add lines above : exit 0 echo 'quake3.x86 0 0 direct' > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss echo 'quake3-smp.x86 0 0 direct' > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss''
Playing
Single CPU Systems
./quake3
Multiple (SMP) CPU Systems
./quake3-smp
Links
http://www.idsoftware.com/
http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/q3a/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_III_Arena
Open source Quake 3 distribution:
http://ioquake3.org/